Senior Manager It Projects

Description:

• Provide facilitative leadership, direction, and oversight to a team of Project Managers responsible for OPG’s Corporate and Renewable Generation IT projects.
• Ensure all elements are executed in accordance to the established Project Management program, standards, and processes.
• Set and manage team priorities and ensure projects are supported and executed per the approved Business Case Summaries, Project Charter, and Project Management Plans.
• Lead and manage a team of 7-12 persons and ensure staff are fully engaged and aligned to business goals and objectives.
• Promote collaboration and teamwork instilling expectations of excellence and personal best performance.
• Advise line management of any emergent issues likely to adversely affect project performance and having environmental, public, or employee health and safety, legal, or business reputation implications to OPG.
• Identify risks and develop and monitor actions to eliminate or mitigate risks, including schedule and cost contingency.
• Coordinate the development of all documentation and deliverable requirements for project lifecycle decision milestones that are established for project approvals to proceed and funding release requests.
• Identify and control all material changes to scope, schedule, and cost baselines and ensure changes (scope, schedule and cost) are processed using integrated change control.
• Prepare and present gate packages for review and approval by governing bodies and monitor gate commitments (scope, schedule, and cost).
• Close out the project with appropriate turnover documentation including closeout reports, post implementation reviews, and lessons learned.
• Explore alternatives and recommend options to achieve project objectives.
• Ensure that project costs are planned, monitored, correctly allocated, controlled, and reported and ensure integrity and confidentiality of budget information is maintained.
• Own, monitor, and control project schedules, and establish and maintain schedules for all deliverables within scope.
• Ensure the establishment of project reporting metrics and effective processes to reliably collect information and communicate project results.
• Implement appropriate earned value and forecasting methods within project reporting.
• Perform analysis on performance results and identify impacts on projects and ensure appropriate actions are taken to minimize variances from the approved Project Management Plan and associated cost, schedule, and scope baselines.
• Maintain communication with all functional managers and stakeholders in order to develop a detailed understanding of the entire organization and to assess and communicate project progress internally to the project teams and externally to key stakeholders.